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New York Times opens access to all articles!

Gardiner Allen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:07:06 +0000

Saw this by way of BoingBoing, from Kottke.org:

Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.

I hate failing at Googling

Gardiner Allen — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:04:21 +0000

I read about some neat software awhile ago. In order to bring better signal-to-noise meaning to email, the software gives email users a fixed number of points each day. Then people assign point values to emails they send, effectively weighting them. This way you can assume that when someone spends 20 of their daily 30 points on an email for you, its super important. And you can see based on trends that you may need to spend 5 points to have someone even notice your email. It’s definitely available as an outlook plug-in/addon as well.

Problem is I never bookmarked it and I can’t freaking find this product on Google! Ahh! 1 hour of searching and the signal to noise ratio is off the charts when searching for email, collaboration, etc.

Help.

Twitter gets more spectacular each day

Gardiner Allen — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:37:37 +0000

Twitter is a way of life. It’s living with a publicity policy. It’s friends, Romans and country people the world over engaged in timely snippet conversations that fit into 140 character chunks.